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Windows Continuum
Continuum is a feature created by Microsoft in 2015, integrated into the Windows 10 Mobile operating system. It was designed to provide users with a desktop-like experience when connecting their smartphone to an external monitor. Continuum enabled supported smartphones to project a full-screen interface on a monitor using the phone’s hardware, but with a user interface resembling a desktop environment. Functionality Continuum allowed a Windows 10 Mobile device to connect to an external monitor either wirelessly, via protocols like Miracast, or through a wired accessory, such as the Microsoft Display Dock. When connected, the smartphone’s interface expanded into a desktop-like environment, featuring a taskbar and support for keyboard and mouse input. While Continuum emulated a desktop experience, it was limited to running apps from the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which were designed to scale across various screen sizes. However, traditional Windows desktop applications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The early 1980s and home computers, rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the List of the largest software companies, largest software maker, one of the Trillion-dollar company, most valuable public U.S. companies, and one of the List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands globally. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. During the 41 years from 1980 to 2021 Microsoft released 9 versions of MS-DOS with a median frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows 10 Mobile
Windows 10 Mobile is the fourth and final generation of Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system, succeeding Windows Phone 8.1. First released in 2015, it was marketed by Microsoft as being an Windows 10 editions, edition of its Personal computer, PC counterpart, Windows 10. Windows 10 Mobile aimed to provide greater consistency with its counterpart for PCs, including more extensive synchronization of content, Universal Windows Platform apps, as well as the capability, on supported hardware, to connect devices to an external display and use a Desktop metaphor, desktop interface with mouse and keyboard input support (reminiscent of Windows on PCs). Microsoft built tools for software developer, developers to Porting, port iOS Objective-C apps with minimal modifications. Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones are eligible for upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile, pursuant to manufacturer and carrier support. Some features vary depending on hardware compatibility. Windows 10 Mobile was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Lumia
Nokia Lumia, later rebranded to Microsoft Lumia, is a discontinued line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by Nokia and later by Microsoft Mobile. Introduced on October 26, 2011, the line was the result of a long-term partnership between Nokia and Microsoft—as such, Lumia smartphones run on Microsoft software, the Windows Phone operating system; and later the newer Windows 10 Mobile. The Lumia name is derived from the partitive plural form of the Finnish word ''lumi'', meaning "snow". The series debuted with the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 smartphones. In April 2012, the first high-end flagship, Nokia Lumia 900, was released in the US in partnership with AT&T, backed by a major marketing push. Its later flagships included the Nokia Lumia 920, 925, and the first phablet-style model, Nokia Lumia 1520. However, its most successful model was in the lower-end, the budget Nokia Lumia 520, released in April 2013. In July 2013, Nokia introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracast
Miracast is a Wireless, wireless communications standard created by the Wi-Fi Alliance which is designed to transmit video and sound from devices (such as laptops or smartphones) to display receivers (such as TVs, monitors, or projectors). It uses Wi-Fi Direct to create an Wireless ad hoc network, ad hoc encrypted wireless connection and can roughly be described as "HDMI over Wi-Fi", replacing cables in favor of wireless.On Wifi-Display, Democratic Republics and Miracles Patrick Herrmann, on the development of Miraclecast, 2014-02-17. Miracast is utilised in many devices and is used or branded under various names by different manufacturers, including Smart View (by Samsung), SmartShare (by LG), screen mirroring (by Sony), Cast (in Windows 11) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Windows Platform
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is a computing platform created by Microsoft and introduced in Windows 10. The purpose of this platform is to help develop universal apps that run on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile (discontinued), Windows 11, Xbox system software, Xbox One, Xbox system software, Xbox Series X/S, and Microsoft HoloLens, HoloLens without the need to be porting, rewritten for each. It supports Microsoft Windows, Windows app development using C++, C Sharp (programming language), C#, VB.NET, and XAML. The application programming interface, API is implemented in C++, and supported in C++, VB.NET, C#, F Sharp (programming language), F# and JavaScript. Designed as an extension to the Windows Runtime, Windows Runtime (WinRT) platform introduced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, UWP allows developers to create apps that will potentially run on multiple types of devices. UWP does not target non-Microsoft systems. Microsoft's solution for other platforms is .NET MAUI (prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Lumia 950
Microsoft Lumia 950 (codenamed ''Talkman'', a reference to the old Nokia Talkman) is a smartphone developed by Microsoft Mobile, officially revealed on 6 October 2015 alongside the larger Lumia 950 XL. The phone was first released on AT&T in the United States on 17 November 2015, and subsequently made available on the Microsoft Store as well as in other countries. The Lumia 950 was the successor to the 2014 Nokia Lumia 930 and is among the first phones to natively run Windows 10 Mobile. The phone is primarily aimed at users desiring a flagship device, in contrast to Microsoft's previous strategy of targeting developing markets with low-end hardware. Microsoft's numbering convention designated the Lumia 950 as a 5th-generation device in the high-end 900 series. The Lumia 950 was Microsoft Mobile's last Lumia flagship device, and its last flagship Windows Phone device. A supposed successor called Microsoft Lumia 960 (codenamed ''Northstar'') was reportedly canceled while being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumia 950 XL
The Microsoft Lumia 950 XL (codenamed ''Cityman'', a reference to the old Nokia Cityman) is a smartphone developed by Microsoft Mobile, officially revealed on October 6, 2015 and released on November 20, 2015 alongside the smaller Lumia 950. The Lumia 950 XL is the successor to the Nokia Lumia 1520 and is among the first phones to natively run Windows 10 Mobile. The phone is primarily aimed at users desiring a flagship device. Hardware The Lumia 950 XL has a polycarbonate frame with a removable back shell, allowing access to the battery as well as SIM and microSD card slots. The phone is available in two colors, black and white, although third-party replacement shells are available in different colors and materials. Internals The Lumia 950 XL uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 SoC which combines four 2 GHz Cortex-A57 and four 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 cores in a big.LITTLE architecture, allowing more computationally intensive workloads to run on the faster "big" core ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HP Inc
HP Inc. is an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology, information technology company with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printer (computing), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing services. It is the Market share of personal computer vendors, world's second-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales after Lenovo and ahead of Dell as of 2024. HP Inc. was founded in 2015 as a corporate spin-off, spin-off of the original Hewlett-Packard Company after the company's enterprise product and business services divisions were split into a new publicly traded company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP Inc. retained the personal computer and printer services divisions from its predecessor, serving as the legal successor of the original company that was originally founded in 1939. HP is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index. In the 2023 Fortune 500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samsung DeX
Samsung DeX (stylized as SΛMSUNG DeX) is a feature included on some high-end Samsung Electronics, Samsung handheld devices that enables users to extend their device into a Desktop computer, desktop-like experience by connecting a Computer keyboard, keyboard, Computer mouse, mouse, and Computer monitor, monitor. The name "''DeX''" is a contraction of "''Desktop eXperience''". For technical specifications, Samsung DeX requires hardware such as USB 3.1 transfer specification, USB-C port with DisplayPort USB-C#Alternate_Mode_partner_specifications, Alternate Mode support to be present on a mobile device. Samsung first included the DeX feature on the Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8, and has continued to support the feature on most of their high-end smartphones, including the Samsung Galaxy S series, Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy Note series, Note and Samsung Galaxy Z series, Z Fold lines. The feature is also available on many Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_series#Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S, Galaxy Tab S mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMUI
EMUI (formerly known as Emotion UI) is an interface based on Android (operating system) developed by Chinese technology company Huawei, used on the company's smartphones primarily globally. Instead of Google Mobile Services, EMUI devices have used Huawei Mobile Services, such as the Huawei AppGallery, in January 2020 due to United States sanctions imposed during the trade war against China in May 2019. From Version 13 (2022), Huawei additionally bundled the HarmonyOS TEE microkernel with the Android system; this microkernel for example handled identity security features such as the fingerprint authentication. History On 30 December 2012, Huawei introduced Emotion UI 1.0, based on Android 4.0. It features a voice assistant app (only in Chinese), customizable homescreens and theme-switching. The company rolled out installation files for the Ascend P1 through their website. The company claims that it is "probably the world's most emotional system". On 4 September 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
